Cummins Diversity Procurement - Diverse Supplier Symposium 2014

On May 16, 2014, Michelle Taylor, Diversity Procurement Leader of Cummins; Tom Linebarger, Chairman and CEO of Cummins; and Brian Sanders, Diversity Procurement Manager of Cummins; welcomed diverse suppliers from around the globe to its Diverse Supplier Symposium and Supplier Showcase held in Columbus Indiana.
At Cummins, our supply base is the lifeblood of our company. Diversity Procurement was established to carry out the company's commitment to achieve diversity in our supply base and to promote the economic development of Minority-Owned, Women-Owned, HubZone, Service Disable Veteran-Owned, Small Disadvantaged Businesses, Veteran-Owned,

A.T. Kearney Procurement & Analytic colleagues from around the globe share what we deliver to our clients, how we achieve these results and why.

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Procurement Innovation for Cloud Services in Europe, Bob Jones, CERN

Procurement Innovation for Cloud Services in Europe, Bob Jones, CERN

Procurement Innovation for Cloud Services in Europe, Bob Jones, CERN

From cloud-ACTIVE to cloud-PRODUCTIVE, 14 May 2014, CERN Globe for Science and Innovation in Geneva, Switzerland.
Procurement Innovation for Cloud Services in Europe presentation by Bob Jones, CERN.

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Special Report (Agenda 2014) - Defence Procurement

Special Report (Agenda 2014) - Defence Procurement

Special Report (Agenda 2014) - Defence Procurement

India shares its borders with several countries and has faced aggression in the past from China and Pakistan. The borders with these two countries remain disturbed even today. Besides, there is a constant danger of infiltration from other countries like Bangladesh and Myanmar. India also has a long coast line which needs to be guarded at all times more so after the Mumbai 26/11 incident. India is also a emerging superpower and plays a key role in peacekeeping operations across the globe and maritime operations in the international waters in its vicinity. This huge geographical and strategic requirement translates into a need for well-equipped

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Great Procurement Software is Just the Start

Great Procurement Software is Just the Start

Great Procurement Software is Just the Start

The Perfect Commerce solution suite was designed to integrate seamlessly with many different types of ERP financial systems. Our multicultural, multi-language platform serves as a compliance tool that enables procurement professionals to tackle an array of challenges across a global marketplace. The right software, however, isn't the only thing organizations need to work effectively with suppliers. Learn the key to doing business with suppliers across the globe.

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[French] ComS.I.T. Component Solutions in Time

[French] ComS.I.T. Component Solutions in Time

[French] ComS.I.T. Component Solutions in Time

ComS.I.T has been a dependable partner for its customers for over 25 years.
When it comes to professional globe procurement and supply chain management services, from ever major manufacturer, we are the intelligent choice.
Our dedication to specialized procurement, service and sales solutions, combined with a worldwide network of ComS.I.T. subsidiaries, has made ComS.I.T. Europe's leading distributor and service provider in the industry. ComS.I.T. operates according to the highest standards of quality; all sales and logistics processes are certified to ISO9001 and 14001.
Our customers include major international equipment manufacture

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[English] ComS.I.T. Component Solutions in Time

[English] ComS.I.T. Component Solutions in Time

[English] ComS.I.T. Component Solutions in Time

ComS.I.T has been a dependable partner for its customers for over 25 years. When it comes to professional globe procurement and supply chain management servi...

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[Italian] ComS.I.T. Component Solutions in Time

[Italian] ComS.I.T. Component Solutions in Time

[Italian] ComS.I.T. Component Solutions in Time

ComS.I.T has been a dependable partner for its customers for over 25 years. When it comes to professional globe procurement and supply chain management servi...

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DHL Podcast

DHL Podcast

DHL Podcast

Accounts payable and Procure-to-Pay processes have been operating in shared services models for years. Increasingly, we are seeing more and more procurement functions move into shared services, standardizing and harmonizing their processes, globally.
So to what extent can procurement processes be standardized globally?
Jerker Gunnarsson, Global Purchasing Process Lead for DHL, spoke about DHL’s journey to optimize their tactical purchasing at our recent Summit for Leaders in Finance and Procurement Shared Services.
Until recently, DHL’s operations across the globe relied on varying sizes of purchasing and sourcing teams, and so trying

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We Are Fluor

We Are Fluor

We Are Fluor

Fluor takes on some of the toughest challenges in engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, maintenance, and project management around the globe. ...

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[Japanese] ComS.I.T. Component Solutions in Time

[Japanese] ComS.I.T. Component Solutions in Time

[Japanese] ComS.I.T. Component Solutions in Time

ComS.I.T has been a dependable partner for its customers for over 25 years. When it comes to professional globe procurement and supply chain management servi...

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[Spanish] ComS.I.T. Component Solutions in Time

[Spanish] ComS.I.T. Component Solutions in Time

[Spanish] ComS.I.T. Component Solutions in Time

ComS.I.T has been a dependable partner for its customers for over 25 years. When it comes to professional globe procurement and supply chain management servi...

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I Am Safety Today

I Am Safety Today

I Am Safety Today

Who is Safety Today? We are a Volk Enterprises Company. With affiliates all over the globe, our buying power is immense. More impressive — we are individuals dedicated to excellence. We are Safety Today. From our field staff to our inside and warehouse teams, from our procurement experts to our manufacturing groups all over the world — it takes each of us to return people home to their families every day in the same condition they left.

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[Portuguese] ComS.I.T. Component Solutions in Time

[Portuguese] ComS.I.T. Component Solutions in Time

[Portuguese] ComS.I.T. Component Solutions in Time

ComS.I.T has been a dependable partner for its customers for over 25 years. When it comes to professional globe procurement and supply chain management servi...

Cummins Diversity Procurement - Diverse Supplier Symposium 2014

published:15 Jul 2014

views:1266

On May 16, 2014, Michelle Taylor, Diversity Procurement Leader of Cummins; Tom Linebarger, Chairman and CEO of Cummins; and Brian Sanders, Diversity Procurement Manager of Cummins; welcomed diverse suppliers from around the globe to its Diverse Supplier Symposium and Supplier Showcase held in Columbus Indiana.
At Cummins, our supply base is the lifeblood of our company. Diversity Procurement was established to carry out the company's commitment to achieve diversity in our supply base and to promote the economic development of Minority-Owned, Women-Owned, HubZone, Service Disable Veteran-Owned, Small Disadvantaged Businesses, Veteran-Owned, LGBT-owned and Small Businesses as suppliers. Our vision is to unleash the Cummins Power of Opportunity by creating strategic partnerships with QUALIFIED diverse suppliers that create customer value and a competitive advantage for Cummins.
For more information on Cummins' Diversity Procurement initiative, visit the Cummins Diversity Procurement website at http://www.cumminsdiversity.com.

Special Report (Agenda 2014) - Defence Procurement

published:03 May 2014

views:3227

India shares its borders with several countries and has faced aggression in the past from China and Pakistan. The borders with these two countries remain disturbed even today. Besides, there is a constant danger of infiltration from other countries like Bangladesh and Myanmar. India also has a long coast line which needs to be guarded at all times more so after the Mumbai 26/11 incident. India is also a emerging superpower and plays a key role in peacekeeping operations across the globe and maritime operations in the international waters in its vicinity. This huge geographical and strategic requirement translates into a need for well-equipped defence forces and strong defence strategy. Heavy investments on arms & ammunition are required to meet and maintain the requirements of the defence forces. But where large sum of money is involved, various procedural problems emerge as well, including possible entry of middleman in the arms deals. With several controversies having cropped up in the past in defence procurement, an important need was there for placing a sound and transparent procurement policy for defence related equipment purchases.
In this special report we would take a closer look at the government's new defence policy & protocol to buy arms and ammunition for our defence forces in an attempt to keep various issues and unwanted characters away. We will also see whether these steps have been taken in the right direction or is there a need to revise them.
Anchor: Vineet Dikshit

Great Procurement Software is Just the Start

published:01 Dec 2014

views:3

The Perfect Commerce solution suite was designed to integrate seamlessly with many different types of ERP financial systems. Our multicultural, multi-language platform serves as a compliance tool that enables procurement professionals to tackle an array of challenges across a global marketplace. The right software, however, isn't the only thing organizations need to work effectively with suppliers. Learn the key to doing business with suppliers across the globe.

[French] ComS.I.T. Component Solutions in Time

published:13 Jan 2011

views:1652

ComS.I.T has been a dependable partner for its customers for over 25 years.
When it comes to professional globe procurement and supply chain management services, from ever major manufacturer, we are the intelligent choice.
Our dedication to specialized procurement, service and sales solutions, combined with a worldwide network of ComS.I.T. subsidiaries, has made ComS.I.T. Europe's leading distributor and service provider in the industry. ComS.I.T. operates according to the highest standards of quality; all sales and logistics processes are certified to ISO9001 and 14001.
Our customers include major international equipment manufacturers (OEM) and contract electronics manufacturers (CEM), from a wide range of industries; such as consumer products, automotive and telecommunications.
We also service trading companies, brokers, authorized distributors and manufacturers directly.
Our customers value us as a reliable provider of quality components, on time, every time. With the same commitment, however, we also handle the profitable marketing of excess stocks and discontinued products as a purchase, broker or consignment.

DHL Podcast

published:19 Nov 2014

views:38

Accounts payable and Procure-to-Pay processes have been operating in shared services models for years. Increasingly, we are seeing more and more procurement functions move into shared services, standardizing and harmonizing their processes, globally.
So to what extent can procurement processes be standardized globally?
Jerker Gunnarsson, Global Purchasing Process Lead for DHL, spoke about DHL’s journey to optimize their tactical purchasing at our recent Summit for Leaders in Finance and Procurement Shared Services.
Until recently, DHL’s operations across the globe relied on varying sizes of purchasing and sourcing teams, and so trying to standardize across their presence in more than 220 countries was a hugely daunting task. It is probably a familiar cause of distress for many of our readers. DHL had a mission to achieve a 20% reduction in transactional costs in Procurement.
DHL realised that they would not be able to standardize processes before they were truly separated from each other. This required the breaking down of procurement into purchasing and sourcing activities, which could then be streamlined into more lean processes.
Jerker Gunnarsson drove the philosophy that “90% of what a buyer does should be the same, regardless if you’re in Costa Rica, China, or Germany”.

I Am Safety Today

published:28 Jan 2015

views:184

Who is Safety Today? We are a Volk Enterprises Company. With affiliates all over the globe, our buying power is immense. More impressive — we are individuals dedicated to excellence. We are Safety Today. From our field staff to our inside and warehouse teams, from our procurement experts to our manufacturing groups all over the world — it takes each of us to return people home to their families every day in the same condition they left.

Horizon 2013 Experience

published:07 Mar 2014

views:2

Horizon 2013 featured close to 200 attendees from across the globe, 25+ sessions & 30+ speakers from leading procurement organizations & analyst firms. Watch this short video and relive the moments from Horizon 2013.

Supplyco fails to procure paddy from farmers in Kumarakom

published:06 Jan 2015

views:12

Supplyco has officially stopped its intake of paddy, leaving in a quandary farmers who have harvested the crop but now have no buyers for their produce. Private mills are of no relief since they purchase paddy from the neighbouring states at lower rates. Over 200 tonnes of paddy are lying idle in the fields around Kumarakom, and about 87 farmers who had hoped for Government procurement of their paddy are now a worried lot, not knowing how they will repay their agricultural loans.
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Where to next with the RPA?: Lessons from international developments in public service reform

published:03 Dec 2013

views:8

Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh (QUB) - Where to next with the RPA?: Lessons from international developments in public service reform
As governments across the globe grapple with the effects of the global financial and economic crises, the issue of public service reform has re-emerged as a key ingredient in the restoration of public finances as well as public trust in government. The content of these reforms varies considerably, however, ranging from swinging cuts in personnel numbers and expenditure budgets to the introduction of new performance management techniques, re-organisations and other consolidation measures. As the reforms envisaged under the Review of Public Administration in Northern Ireland continue to be implemented, it is thus timely to consider developments and innovations from elsewhere in respect of a new era in public service reform. This presentation will consider some of the key patterns and variations emerging in Europe and further afield, and will examine what lessons might be gleaned from them.

DC Environmental Network Brown-Bag: Recycle by Design

published:02 Jan 2015

views:2

On November 12th the DC Environmental Network organized and hosted a discussion about the future of zero waste in Washington, DC. Representatives from IMG Rebel presented on a new and exciting concept called “Recycle by Design.”
Our two panelists:
- Jeff George, IMG Rebel
“With an educational foundation in Environmental Design, Urban Planning, and Sustainability, I’ve has accrued over 25 years of professional experience within the solid waste sector. For many of these years I have worked expansively not only throughout the US, but numerous countries in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. This includes living & working in the UK for four years from 2008-2012. This breadth of both domestic and international exposure has given me the ability to comfortably cultivate strong cross-cultural relationships with clients, stakeholders, and other diverse groups near and far. I try to maintain a worldly perspective which I believe has helped me to see what works – and doesn’t work – and even more importantly, why. Most recently, I have been drawn to the development and implementation of sustainable waste management practices within both the public and private sectors. I particularly enjoy new business development and stakeholder engagement; seeing innovative ideas develop through an organic growth process into implementable actions of change. I was raised and grew up within the shadows of the Oneida Community, a utopian-based commune founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 focused on the belief of Perfectionism.”
- Lenny van Klink, IMG Rebel
“My job at Rebel is to manage complex organizational change at both government and business level. I was previously employed as a public administrator and business administrator by the Dutch finance ministry, Twynstra Gudde, the ORMIT Advanced Management Program and French company SUEZ/SITA. I like projects which focus on the successful implementation of new initiatives whose goals I can translate into winning business cases. To do this I combine strategic, business development and change management skills.”
Recycle by Design:
The District of Columbia and surrounding region, and communities across the globe, face significant challenges to achieving the goal of increasing recycling rates and moving towards being a zero waste society. The District is going to have to engage on numerous fronts and will need both public and private approaches if we ever want to achieve the sometimes complimentary goals of improving the environment and creating jobs and new business opportunities in our city. Recycle by Design could be an important tool to spur progress on this front.
This concept was inspired by the “Rebuild by Design” initiative that was a particularly successful response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in the greater New York Metropolitan area. The goals of IMG Rebel’s, Dutch inspired, “Recycle by Design” concept is to create a competition for discovering the best solutions for a complex and resilient problem.
The goal is two-fold:
– Promoting innovation by developing regionally-scalable—but locally-contextual—solutions that increase recycling in a given region. The solutions in the selected proposals will be implemented with dedicated public and private funding.
– Creating policy innovation by committing to set aside governmental funds and cooperation from governmental organizations to implement the best solution or group of solutions.
There is no well formulated blue print for Recycle by Design, instead it is a tailor-made approach for each community. The purpose of this DCEN networking opportunity is to begin a conversation, led by IMG Rebel, to figure out what Recycle by Design might look like in the District of Columbia.
As stated by IMG Rebel:
“Lessons learned from Rebuild by Design and its partners have demonstrated that by working together through this type of design process, ambitious, realistic, and more resilient standards of infrastructure can be established that respond to communities’ challenges within a new, more innovative environment. By successfully complementing the traditional public procurement approach, Recycle by Design will stimulate public-private financing and produce an alternative organizational structure for development that promotes ingenuity.”
- See more at: http://www.dcen.net/#sthash.k3HBNzXv.dpuf

A globe is a three-dimensional scale model of Earth (terrestrial globe) or other spheroid celestial body such as a planet, star, or moon. It may also refer to a spherical representation of the celestial sphere, showing the apparent positions of the stars and constellations in the sky (celestial globe). The word "globe" comes from the Latin word globus, meaning round mass or sphere.

A globe is the only representation of the earth that does not distort either the shape or the size of large features; flat maps are created using a map projection that inevitably introduces an increasing amount of distortion the larger the area that the map shows. A typical scale for a terrestrial globe is roughly 1:40 million.

Sometimes a globe has surface texture showing topography; in these, elevations are exaggerated, otherwise they would be hardly visible. Most modern globes are also imprinted with parallels and meridians, so that one can tell the approximate coordinates of a specific place. Globes provide the best view of Earth today.